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Quote #10
When the minister spoke from the pulpit with power and fervid eloquence […] then did Goodman Brown turn pale, dreading lest the roof should thunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers. Often, waking suddenly at midnight, he shrank from the bosom of Faith; and at morning or eventide, when the family knelt down at prayer, he scowled and muttered to himself, and gazed sternly at his wife, and turned away. (72-73)
In the end, it doesn't even matter if the wild night in the forest was a dream. Its effects are real enough, and Goodman Brown's loss of innocence is total. In fact, it is so total that everything that should console him—family, community, marital affection—just drives him deeper into his sadness.